Current Affairs - State - Discussion

Uttar Pradesh government announced the setting up of Cow Protection Committees (Gau Sanrakshan Samitis) in all districts of Uttar Pradesh to make sure that cow sheds (gaushalas) are operated efficiently. The Cow Protection Committees will be headed by the district magistrate. The superintendent of police and the district's chief development officer will act as the district magistrate's deputies. The Cow Protection Committees would sell cow-related products like soaps, incense sticks, mosquito repellant coils, biogas, compost and phenyl made from cow urine. This has been done in order to make the cow sheds self-sufficient.